The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-12
Thirty KILLED.
ANOTHER TERRIBLE RAIL.
WAY DISASTER.
A Passenger Train Telescoped by
a Freight Engine.
Frightiul Scene OF Death and
g Destruction.
The Fatal Car Stove Sets Fire
to the Ruins,
And Men, Women and Children
are Burned to Death, G
While Mortified Spectators are
Powerless to Aid Them.
Thirty Supposed to Have Been
Killed and Forty Injured.
Criminal Carelessness Of Train
And Men, Women and Children
are Burned to Death, sG
While Mortified Spectators are
P0werless to Aid Them.
Thirty Supposed to Have Been
Killed and Forty Injured.
Criminal Carelessness Of Train
# Men Caused It.

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CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 1l.-A special 10 the
Evening Journal from North Judaop, Ind,
says "Another Chatsworth railroad hor-
ror occurred on tho Chicago & Atlantic
railroad this morning. sixty miles east Of
Chicngo, nea, Kouta station. Many pas.
aengeya we're killed aud burned in the
wreck and from twenty-five to thirty wero
more or lees injured. A heavy ireah meat
train telescoped the evening accomnoda-
ton train, which loayea Chicago at 7:45
p. NJ. The accommodation, with one bag
gago car, two coaches aud ono sleeper, had
stopped at tho water tank 10. water about
one mile wcat Of Kouta, and tho freight
train following crashed into tho eleeper,
telescopinS and burning the entire pasaen.
go. train as above stated. William
Perry, Auditor OF Stark county, and his
wife and child were victims OF the terrible
fire which broke out almoat Immediately
alter the freight train crashed IN among
the passen2era." -
W. A. Duncan, OF Syracuse, N. y, cr-
rived fsom the scene Of the accident. He
saw the wreck. Eighteen or twenty 10 the
number at which he placea those who
have bson killed. A number OF these were
burned before his eyes. A little Bo,
heminn boy was hemmed in but no.
reached by the fire, end saw hia father,
motke. aud two sisters nlowiy roasting be-
lore his eyes. He Was dying 90 M.. Dun.
can LETT. There was doctor on tho train,
Mr.. Duncan says, who lost his wife and
daughter in the burning wreck. Eo could
do absolutely nothing for them, and cav
them encircled By sssthing tongues Of fire
and cremsted. The train was not taasn
oYez the track on which the. wreck oacuS-
red, but switched around tho renaina OF
tho train, being sti!l too hot to move. The
night was dark and the scene was dreadful.
The rear coaches OF the passenger train
we're smashed and te!escoped 90 that three
occupied less epsce than one. Tho live
Goals from the freight engine igniIed the
debris under which z
| TIE WOUNDED AND DEAD
wero lying. Before substantial assistance
could be rendered thirty people had died.
Some were mercifully killed by the f; ;st
SHOCK, but many were slowly roasted to
death. No ono in the Pullman slespor
was hurt. The conductor telsgraphed to
his company here that all escsped before
tho Gre reached tho car aud mono we're
injured. In the collision no msana ex-
listed for checking the ii.e, and until it
had burned ITSELF out wss it possible to do
snything for tho tsw atill aliya end im-
prisoncd in the tebrig. Forty people
were wounded or hurnad or both. - =.
sevesa! passangaYs who wers on the i'll
fated train etriyed in this city this alter
noon. Ona Of them, 6 gentleman from
Taunton, Macs, who whs On h;a way
home, was sitting il tha frat car aaleep
with Liz head on llis sstenel '.fhs frat
knew I heard ii;ghtiul crash and the
car seemed shattered, and tho pillows
were dying pss. ms. The next ! knsw I
found myssli a'mos. buried il rnins, and
they seemed to keep piling up. tried to
extricata myself sud found / VAS neer a
window. It was Gil dark, aud ell around
wsrs yells and groaus, and the blackueac
v
beyond being shaken up, so 4 m
f,.steSSl,g n, CALLED FoR nELp e..
out OF tho W!Gdsw, Sune man helped
mo out and I thea tutnsd il and helped
to got others ont. 4 little while Giiar |
sot out, though, the whole thing took fire
and We ve.s io.ced TO give up, working
on it bit By bit. As cus place there were
two or three women, apparently all to.
gether, sud we tried 10 set thor, out,
They vera rbriekine nll tho .ine in C
manner to t,esze ona's blood, for the fire
wae coming nearer to theha all the time
Wo worked as long as We could, but could
not ret them out and the fire como ali
atoNpt and 6nally silencad their scresms
To hear thesS desperate cries as tho flames
nearer and nearer uass:e snd 1nslly reach
cd them, was simply 6psl!ipg. This
wssck burned 10 ths trucxs, no faciiitica
boinv at hand 10 ext;nguiah the fire. A
car load Of the ninfaa was taken from tbs
wreck this afternoon. Il TGay wero main.
cd, b.uissi and burned, some quito
badly" aSSfs tl3l 4 ~
William G,shenyan. the conductor o.
tho Chicago, st. Louis aat Pittsburgh
construction train, nov working hetTeen
kouts aud Hebron, sma!! station ter
miles weat OF kouts, saw something OF the
recalts OF the accident. His Train run:
into koUt9 every evaning with its
load Of tired wo,statp, and the conductor
lgeeps in tho one little hote, 0. which the
t.oMa boasts. He wGs awakened at ior1
o'clock this morning to take out q Wabash
train that he'd been delayed by the wreck
Upon going down stairs Ia The hotel he
found all contusion. In the little pasloi
boy. Bome Is years old vas stretched
upon the floor literally 5F
3;s, ,MANoLED AND TOM TO PIECES q
with just enough lie in him to spsak in
faint whispers to thoss who asked hiu
about the accident. In tho room Of thu
narlor another boy was lying with serious
bruises ebout the head. III one OF the
upper ROOMS he learned the engineer o!
the wrecked meat irain was lying almost
at the point OF deSth. SO h;deous were
these sights and so pitsous weso tho erie:
Of anguiah which were to bs heard OK
| all sides thnt tho sturdy conductor att
nothing and hurried to his duties glad It
escape such scene. u. II
ID the littls sitting room Of the cottage
which aerves ~ : hotel in this town twt
Of the wounded survivors Qt the scciden
still remained late this afternoon, d terrss1
| Miller, Bohemisn boy, on his way from
Dundee. Ills, to the old country, Is stretch
ed on the one lounge III the low darl
room. His head 10 fearfully battsssd NM
hia right leg is fractured. The othe
wounded man Ia Joaeph McOool, q bar
fender, Of Boston, who, had ho moi been